You have a pretty good start - at $500 you have to be a real stickler with each dollar. So far, using the prices you listed (which doesn't include shipping) you're at $446 - that leaves $54 for an HDD and RAM which isn't realistic.

Here are a few things I noticed:

Seasonic PSU are great and they're expensive. This Corsair Builders Series is ample for your build and is $40 cheaper and has a $20 rebate.

The 6870 is a generation older - try the 7790. It's about the same price and comes with 3 games. If you don't want the games you could sell them to help offset the cost.

The CPU is a good choice and the mobo looks pretty good too. If you need to cut costs, you can drop down to the FX 6300 which is $40 less.

RAM is pretty standard so I would pick one that's cheap and has a lot of positive reviews on newegg. Oh, and you need 1333 (also called 10600). It's compatible with your mobo and doesn't require OCing.

HDDs are tricky in that smaller sizes often don't save much money (if any). Be on the look out for a 1TB HDD on sale for $60 - it happens frequently and that's the going rate for a 500GB.

Not including the CPU savings, you have $94 (54+40 from the PSU). 8GB of RAM plus an HDD is going to run at least $120 ($60 each). As I see it, you have a few options: 1. Drop to a lesser GPU (which I don't recommend)2. Move to the cheaper CPU (a good option, but I think there's a better one)3. Go with 4GB of RAM (I see it as the best option). You can pick up another 4GB for $30 down the road and is the easiest thing to install in a computer.

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